ENDOWMENTS

Bequest of long ago brings lasting rewards

A gift made to the university more than 35 years ago is helping ensure the success of the university's 150th anniversary celebration in 1996-97. The Virginia G. Hickman Fund has helped support "UB Remembers," an historic exhibit at the University Archives that continues through September 10, and other key Sesquicentennial events in October.

When Hickman died in 1960, she left a series of six testamentary trusts that not only provided lifelong incomes to her loved ones, but also established an endowment in her name to support university programs in perpetuity.

Income from the Hickman Fund, which is valued at more than $1 million-with an estimated annual income of $32,309-was first available in 1967. The gift has been used to support the Distinguished Speakers Series, a foreign scholar exchange program with Kyungpook National University, in Taegu, Korea, and undergraduate and graduate scholarships.

Hickman's gift was made in appreciation for the outstanding education her husband, Herbert, received at UB, and in recognition of the service of Herbert's uncle, Willis G. Gregory, as dean of the School of Pharmacy from 1890-1936.